Display device.



PATENTED JAN. 17, 3.905. J. SHBRER.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLIGATION FILM) my la, 1904.

No. 5180,0V0l

, wn @S56/5' Maire Patented January 1'7, 1905..

DlSlPLAY DEVICE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,070, dated January 1'?, 1905.

Application filed May 18,1904. Serial No. 208,511.

To all whom t may cm1/cern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. Summa, a citizen of the United States, residing' at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for display ing material, and has for its object to provide new forms and constructions for devices of that class. l

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a plan view of one form of my invention; Fig. E2, a like view of a modilication. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a sing'le tray such as is shown in Fig. l. Fig'. '4t shows the tray illustrated inFig'. 3 in`` its inverted position. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

A A are trays for holding' the material displayed and are preferably somewhat shallow, having' the retaining' edges B B. These trays may be made from sheets of metal or any suitable material. The edges B may be integral with the bottom part and turned up so as to retain the material.

C C are raised letters in the trays A A. These may be struck up from the bottom of the trays, as shown in Fig. 5, this construetion making' `it possible to use the device with the trays inverted, as shown in Fig. 4. rhe letters, however, may or may not be of the same material. Fig'. l shows a series of such trays arranged so that the letters spell the word Oolong. 7 In Fig. 2 I have shown a single tray, which may be constructed in the same manner, having a series of raised letters, in this case spelling' the word Florida. The form of device shown in Fig. 4t is precisely i the same as the other devices, but is inverted.

the same depth as the characters, so that when either the-space about the characters er the characters themselves are lilled with the material to be displayed the raised surface of the pan or the character, as the ease may be, shall be in approximately the same plane as the surface of the material. The space in the pan about that character should be such as to present suilicient volume to receive suitable quantities of the material to be displayed.

I have thus described my device as l prefer to construct it; but it will be clear that the forms and constructions above set forth might be greatly varied without departing from the spirit of my invention, and consequcutlyI do not limit myself to the particular forms and devices set out.

The use and operation of my invention is as follows: As shown in Fig. 1, the trays are filled with the material displayed, which in this case is tea, and are placed side by side. The raised letters will obviously protrude through the material, and the trays may be arranged to spell the word desired. As shown in Fig'. 4, a tray may be inverted, and in this event the material is displayed in the recessed letter or other character. Thus, for example, all of the trays shown in Fig. l might be so arranged, or part one way and part the other.

,It will be clear that the trays or receptacles might be considerably changed in form and might be adapted to contain and display almost any sort of material without departing from the scope of my invention.

I claiml. A display device comprising a receptacle for material having a raised character therein.

2. A display device comprising' a tray, having a raised character struck up from the bottom thereof.

3. A display device comprising a reversible receptacle having' a raised character on one side and a recessed character on the other side.

A. A reversible display device comprising' a tray having' a raised character struck up from the bottom thereof, in such a manner as to provide a recessed receptacle of similar form when the device is inverted.

5. A display device comprising a series of display-receptacles havingI raised characters IOO IO display a word or symbol.

7. A display device comprising a body portion With a character-shaped portion and a refcess associated therewith so as to outline such character-shaped portion and adapted to receive material to be displayed, the Whole arranged so that the exposed surface of the material to he displayed will lie in substantially the same plane.

SAMUEL J. SHERER.

l/Vitnesses:

HoMER L. KRAFT, PERCIVAL H. TRUMAN. 

